Finnish spinach pancakes 🇫🇮
★★★★★ l "Really surprising and delicious. With or without toppings these pancakes are really very good."
Pinaattiletut are a classic of Finnish cuisine. They are savory spinach pancakes. You might think they are classic pancakes filled with spinach, but no! The spinach is chopped and incorporated into the pancake batter 🥞
Information about the Finnish spinach pancake recipe
10 pancakes
Number of pancakes
10 minutes
Preparation time
10 minutes
Resting time
4 minutes
Cooking time
Ingredients to prepare spinach crepes, pinaattiletut
![farine]()
200g
wheat flour
![butter]()
33g
butter
![lait]()
40cl
semi-skimmed milk
![lait]()
10cl
crème fraîche
![oeuf]()
2
eggs
![epinard]()
160g
frozen or fresh chopped spinach
Steps for preparing spinach pancakes
Step 1: Prepare the spinach
If using frozen spinach, defrost according to package directions.
For fresh spinach, wash, chop and pan-fry with cream for about 6 minutes.
Adding cream to spinach makes for crispier pancakes!
Step 2: Prepare the spinach pancake batter
In a bowl, place the flour and make a well. Then add the eggs, melted butter and chopped spinach to the well. Then mix.
Step 3: Add the milk to the batter
Add the 40cl of milk in several additions to the pancake batter and mix well with a whisk. The more vigorously you mix, the fewer lumps you will get!
Let the batter rest for about 10 minutes.
Step 4: Make the crêpes
If you are using a crepe maker, start heating it up.
You can also make your crêpes in a crepe pan, there is no difference!
Once the crepe maker or the pan is hot, go ahead and make your crêpes!
Step 5: Cooking the crêpes
To cook the crêpes, allow about 4 minutes per side.
Be careful, the cooking time depends on the power of your crêpe maker or the intensity of your stovetop!
To be sure they are cooked, look at the appearance of the crêpes as in the picture below ⤵️ On the left, the crêpe has just been spread on the crêpe maker and is therefore not cooked. On the right, the crêpe is cooked — you just have to flip it and cook the other side!
Step 6 : Topping the pancakes
This step is not mandatory at all! The spinach pancakes are self-sufficient and don't necessarily need to be garnished. But since I'm a foodie, I made you my recipe for spinach pancakes topped with ham and cheese 🤩
Here, I use grated Emmental cheese and white ham, but you can also top your spinach pancakes with salmon, cream cheese or any other ingredient you like!
Step 7: Time to eat!
Finally, it's the moment you've been waiting for! The moment to enjoy what you have just cooked!
So I say, "Enjoy your meal!"
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